'Net Features : seesmic, disqus, wordpress, intensedebate, typepadhttp://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/tags/seesmic/disqus/wordpress/intensedebate/typepad/default.aspxTags: seesmic, disqus, wordpress, intensedebate, typepadenCommunityServer 2008 SP2 (Build: 31104.93)Plug Into Better Commenting With Intense Debatehttp://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2009/03/06/plug-into-better-commenting-with-intense-debate.aspxFri, 06 Mar 2009 17:11:00 GMT1e469e21-c924-44fa-a132-47b5d0a8ad47:7705Pete Prestipino0http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=7705http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2009/03/06/plug-into-better-commenting-with-intense-debate.aspx#comments<hr />
<p><b>Are you using a blogging platform such as WordPress, Blogger, or TypePad?</b> <a href="http://intensedebate.com">Third-party commenting solution Intense Debate</a> announced the release of several plugins for its service which may help you leverage the power of commenting on your Web property.<br /><br />If you&#39;re not familiar with Intense Debate and services like it (such as Disqus), it is a service for bloggers to &quot;<i>enhance and encourage</i>&quot; the conversation occurring on your blog or website through features like comment threading, or reply by email. Other features like commenter profiles, RSS readers and tracking, widgets, moderation/blacklisting, reputation points and comment voting, and even a simple Twitter integration make this type of service a must-have for serious, social-networking focused websites. <br /><br />Plugins for Polldaddy (<i>another Automattic company - which also owns WordPress</i>) for embedded polls, Seesmic and YouTube (<i>for displaying videos in blog comments</i>) are available now. Thanks to a recently published API, expect that developers will be pushing out plugins to users of the very active commenting network. <br /><br />Current users of IntenseDebate need to just log in to their dashboard to see a list of current plugins. Activating a plugin from the account requires you simply select &quot;Activate&quot; next to the plugin in your account. Users will see a comments section on their blog and a plugin icon at the top right of the comment box. To use the plugin, just select the icon - that&#39;s it!</p>
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